Keele Foundation Year Network Conference 2021
The Keele Foundation Year Network Conference invites colleagues to share exemplary practices and approaches to navigating through disruption in education and rapid innovation to strengthen and add value to our education provision.
Wednesday 7th and Thursday 8th July 2021
Influence through Innovation and Disruption
Our aim is to help identify road-maps for change, providing inspiration through innovation and disruption. This may be through case studies or personal reflections that honestly embody the challenges to the current educational landscape.
What do we mean by Innovation?
What do we mean by innovation? It seems to be a very overused term. It tends to refer to something new or a change made to something that already exists. During these unprecedented times we have all had to adapt to a brave new world of
educational delivery and how we develop relationships in a digital world. How, as a sector, have we adapted and innovated to deliver a high quality educational experience?
What do we mean by disruption in education?
Disruption isn't just about replacing something that is well defined and embedded but redefining what education should look like in a fast paced complex knowledge based society. The current restrictions to the pandemic have changed the current 'space and place' of working and learning. What have we learnt? What do universities have to offer for the future?
The conference will be online and delivered via Microsoft Teams. We are currently calling for papers. Details of the finalised programme will be released in May.
FY Network Conference Programme
| Time | ||
| 9.30 - 10.00 |
Conference Introductions Simon Rimmington (Director of Foundation Year, Keele) Conference Welcome Professor Trevor McMillan, Vice Chancellor, Keele University |
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| Session A1 | Session B1 | |
| 10.00 - 10.20 | Fostering a Sense of Belonging in an Online Learning Environment: An IFY Perspective Tina Harvey University of Cumbria |
Redefining 'welcoming' for an online setting- lessons from outreach and recruitment. Dr Camilla Priede & Helen Roy University of Sheffield |
| 10.20 - 10.30 | Q&A | Q&A |
| 10.30 - 10.50 | Responding to informal feedback in an online environment Bianca Sala University of Sheffield |
From School to Surrey (and everything in-between): digital |
| 10.50 - 11.00 | Q&A | Q&A |
| 11.00 - 11. 20 | Is blended better? Interdisciplinary provision, student choice and ambiguous online realities Zoe Enstone York St. John University |
Maintaining Student Engagement & Interaction Lorraine Smith & Haruko Okamoto University of Sussex |
| 11.20 - 11.40 | Q&A | Q&A |
| 11.40 - 12.00 | Time for a Break |
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| 5-minute presentations | 5-minute presentations | 5-minute presentations | |
| Session C1 | Session D1 | Session E1 | |
| 12.00 - 12.05 | Building an oasis of calm in a sea of chaos: supporting students during COVID disruption Kelly Edmunds University of East Anglia |
Saving face when face-to-face is cancelled: Maintaining the personal touch Dr Rachel Staddon University of Sheffield |
Students’ perceptions of asynchronous active student response activities for developing their understanding Caroline Anderson and Beverley Allan University of Nottingham |
| 12.05 - 12.10 | Teaching Practical Science in Student Kitchens Bethan Gulliver University of East Anglia |
2020: the lasting impact of the pandemic on HE students. Kay Dunn University of Wolverhampton |
Foundation year innovation, challenges and opportunities during a pandemic Dr Matthew Craven Plymouth University |
| 12.10 - 12.15 | Delivering a practical skills module via distance learning Karen Vernon-Parry Sheffield Hallam University |
Disrupting assessment in Art and Design |
Blended delivery of group and peer review activities to support academic writing assessment Ellie Davison University of Lincoln |
| 12.15 - 12.20 | Disrupting Education with Artificial Intelligence Thomas Y. Chen Academy for Mathematics, Science, and Engineering |
Sudden transition to online learning; a focus group study exploring foundation year’s students’ experiences about online learning at Keele University Dr Naqash Masood and Dr Laura Hibberts Keele University |
Flipped learning boosts exam performance for students with lower previous academic attainment Ellie Davison University of Lincoln |
| 12.20 - 12.25 | Piloting a new Interdisciplinary Research Investigation Module Via Remote Teaching Dr Lucy Atkinson University of Roehampton |
Use of electronic workbooks to support student on-line learning Steve Russell Aston University |
Reflecting on reflections Pauline Cooke Keele University |
| 12.25 - 12.45 | Q&A | Q&A | Q&A |
| 12.45 - 1.30 | Lunch and Networking | ||
| Time | 20-minute presentations | 20-minute presentations |
| Session F1 | Session G1 | |
| 1.30 - 1.50 | Large-scale delivery of Mathematics to mixed ability multidisciplinary scientists in a lockdown Jeff Neat and Dr Adam Wootton Keele University |
Applying laboratory skills in a home environment. Michael Dibb-Fuller Durham University |
| 1.50 - 2.00 | Q&A | Q&A |
| 2.00- 2.20 | Virtual laboratories: Is there a place for them within STEM learning and teaching? Dr Amy Patten, Dr Rebecca Broadbent and Dr Darren Campbell Aston University |
Exploring the research teaching nexus through a physics |
| 2.20 - 2.30 | Q&A | Q&A |
| 2.30 - 2.50 | Collecting fieldwork data as a remote student: using photoediting apps Helena Batalha University of East Anglia |
Building the Foundations Jason Cook Estelle Damant Loughborough University |
| 2.50 - 3.00 | Q&A | Q&A |
| 3.00 - 3.30 | Time for a Break |
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| 3.30 - 5.00 | AGM | |
| 7.00 onwards | Social, networking | |
| Time | Workshop sessions - ZOOM | ||
| Session A2 | Session B2 | Session C2 | |
| 9.00 - 10.15 | WORKSHOP– 1 – HEA Fellowship Tracey Coppins Keele University |
WORKSHOP – 2 Authentic assessments Dr Adam Wootton |
WORKSHOP 3 - The Pitch – Research and Scholarship group Simon Rimmington Keele University Rachel Dunn Durham University |
| 10.15 – 10.30 | Time for a Break |
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| Time | 20-minute presentations | |
| Session D2 | Session E2 | |
| 10.30 - 10.50 | It’s the journey not the destination; Personal Academic Coaching and Foundation Year Students Marie Clifford and Emma Wheeler University of South Wales |
Virtual communities of learning. Dr Darren Campbell, |
| 10.50 - 11.00 | Q&A | Q&A |
| 11.00 - 11.20 | Lessons from group work on Zoom - bringing compassion into the foundation year Fiona Elsted University of Essex |
‘Multiflexing’ – teaching online and in-person at the same time |
| 11.20 - 11.30 | Q&A | Q&A |
| 11.30 - 11.50 | Time for a break | |
| Session F2 | Session G2 | |
| 11.50 - 12.10 | Maximising Student Engagement in Pre-recorded Lectures Amy Stickels and Anna Tranter Warwick University |
Active learning and the online flipped classroom. Dimitrios Roxanas University of Sheffield |
| 12.10 – 12.20 | Q&A | Q&A |
| 12.20 – 12.40 | On or about March 2020, the world changed: Teaching Modernity during COVID-19 Dr Madeleine Newman and Dr David Ibitson Leeds University |
The Prevent duty in the digital learning environment: Managing |
| 12.40 - 12.50 | Q&A | Q&A |
| 12.50 – 13.30 | Lunch and Networking | |
| 1.30 - 3.00 | Discussion panel – Lessons learnt. Looking to next year and next five years. Panel members representing – student support, student voice, university educational strategy and operations, fy strategy & FY Network Simon Rimmington (Chair) Prof. Kris Spellman-Miller - PVC Education (Keele), Dr Katie Szorknik - Dean of Education (Natural Sciences - Keele), Katie Laverty - Director of Student Services (Keele), Jan O'Driscoll - Director of Foundation Years (Chester) and Chair of FY Network Executive, Marie Chappell - former SU Education Officer Keele and former Keele FY Student, now at Chester, Prof. Jonathan Wastling - Pro Vice-Chancellor and Executive Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences. |
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| 3.00 - 3.15 | Time for a break | |
| 3.15 - 4.00 | Final words and hand over to next year! |
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Simon Rimmington - Chair of Local Organising Committee- s.rimmington@keele.ac.uk
Tracey Coppins - t.h.coppins@keele.ac.uk
